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Note: The data represent more than 240,000 full-time faculty members at 743 four-year institutions in the United States. Salaries are those in effect on November 1, 2015. Averages are unweighted. Salaries for 11- to-12-month work years are adjusted to be equivalent to nine- to-10-month work years. New assistant professors are faculty members hired at that rank in the fall of 2015. New assistant professors’ salaries are considered twice, in their own category and as part of the “assistant professor” salaries. For non-tenure teaching faculty members, a professor is defined as someone with 15 or more years of teaching experience; an associate professor, seven to 14 years of teaching experience; assistant professor, four to six years; and instructor/lecturer, zero to three years. A dash indicates insufficient data.
Source: Bichsel, Jacqueline. “Overview: 2015-16 Faculty in Higher Education Salary Survey Report.” Research report. Knoxville, Tenn.: College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR), March 2016. Available from http://www.cupahr.org/surveys/fhe4.aspx.